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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 15:58:33 +0000
Charges against 10 men across Eastern Europe associated with the Goznym malware crew reveal global law enforcement’s reach—and its limits.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 22:07:24 +0000
FCC chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a set of rules to combat robocalls. Don’t get your hopes up quite yet.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 10:03:00 -0700
Microsoft on Wednesday resurrected Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 long enough to push patches to the long-dead products. It was the first time since 2017 that Microsoft deemed the situation serious enough to warrant a security fix for XP.
Windows XP fell off the public support list in April 2014, while Windows Server 2003 was removed in July 2015.
“If you are on an out-of-support version, the best way to address this vulnerability is to upgrade to the latest version of Windows,” Simon Pope, director of incident response at the Microsoft Security Response Center, asserted in a post to a company blog. “Even so, we are making fixes available for these out-of-support versions of Windows.”
Credit to Author: Joyce Huang| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 14:30:38 +0000
Email is a mature technology, but threats targeting email are evolving and getting more sophisticated. 97%1 of ransomware attacks come from email. That’s why there are so many email security vendors and solutions in the market offering different types of technologies and coverages. Picking the best email security solution for an organization can be overwhelming….
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 06:03:00 -0700
Apple’s devices are far better defended against malware and viruses than other platforms, but does this mean they don’t need anti-virus software?
I’ve lost track of the number of times Mac users have told me Macs don’t need virus protection because they are inherently more robust against such attacks.
I’ve also lost count of how many security researchers have said that Apple devices are becoming more liable to being attacked as their market share grows.
Both are right. Both are wrong.
WhatsApp’s recent spyware hack took advantage of a security vulnerability and allowed attackers to access private, digital communication. In this episode of TECH(feed), Juliet walks through the hack, who was affected and how you can secure your devices ASAP.
Setting up a backup process in Azure is one way to quickly recover from a ransomware attack.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 22:09:12 +0000
In the early days of the Internet, there was a period when Internet Protocol 4 (IPv4) addresses (e.g. 4.4.4.4) were given out like cotton candy to anyone who asked. But these days companies are queuing up to obtain new IP space from the various regional registries that periodically dole out the prized digits. With the value of a single IP hovering between $15-$25, those registries are now fighting a wave of shady brokers who specialize in securing new IP address blocks under false pretenses and then reselling to spammers. Here’s the story of one broker who fought back in the courts, and lost spectacularly. On May 14, South Carolina U.S. Attorney Sherri Lydon filed criminal wire fraud charges against Amir Golestan, alleging he and his Charleston, S.C. based company Micfo LLC orchestrated an elaborate network of phony companies and aliases to gather more than 735,000 IPs from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), a nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S., Canada, and parts of the Caribbean.
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